A Christmas question: My strange neighbor across the hall has scotch taped a branch of (once live) holly to her door and now it is dead. Questionbelow

@SW-User I looked it up, to see if it had some weird significance, and it does. It is used to ward off evil spirits.
And she is a member of the spiritualist church. They call spirits.

@4meAndyou yeee, my aunt does that type of stuff so I was wondering if had something to do with that.
You could still offer her the wreathe though, then she could decorate her door up a bit more and keep the weird ritual she has going on.

@SW-User Yeah, I don't know about the hoo doo or whatever it is. Poor lady. She's fat and ugly and very weird. When she first moved here she used to sit in her living room with her door open which used to freak me out, too. I don't like having people stare at me when I walk into my apartment.

She normally decorates her door with the weirdest stuff. Before the holly she had a huge long string of bells from India and a bunch of purple spider webs. But at least that stuff doesn't smell and drop leaves.

@MaryJanine I haven't gone to defcon 1 at this time.

I'm not sure what that means - but we aren't allowed to put stuff out (for some reason) and you don't want the landlord to say it's YOUR fault if the dried-up holly draws bugs or vermin.

My younger brother just had the gas company come to read his meter because the reading was a problem. The landlord was there when the company came and it was discovered the gas line was directly on top of the water line. His landlord turned to my brother and asked him, "So what did you do to cause this?"

The man from the company said, "It's not his fault. The landlord is supposed to handle something like this." He got a ticket and a warning message to have it fixed within a month. My brother brought the official message to the landlord when he received it in the mail. The landlord's reply was, "Well, I just had a contractor in here. It cost me $100.00, and he said nothing was wrong with it."

This is why I recommended you go talk to the landlord.

@CathyUK If it weren't for the cameras, perhaps I would. BUT...one of the responders below suggested she may have put the ugly, dead, moldy leaf dropping thing up for a reason...possibly to repel evil spirits!!!!She is a member of the spiritualist religion, and holly leaves are put up by pagans to repel evil spirits!!! I know, right? I am wondering if Lysol can repel evil smells.

@uncalled4 😂

@uncalled4 three more haws and a hehehe